Michael Essien

Together with Milan and our media team, we released a statement clearly stating it was a hoax and there was no truth in the rumour that I had Ebola. And that's when the whole thing started to die down. Still, it took about two days or so for people to actually stop talking about it.

Ghanaian Athlete

John Mellencamp

Sound quality was supposed to be one of the big selling points for CDs but, as we know, it wasn't very good at all. It was just another con, a get-rich-quick scheme, a monumental hoax perpetrated on the music consuming public.

American Musician

Jim Inhofe

The hoax is that there are some people who are so arrogant to think that they are so powerful, they can change climate. Man can't change climate.

American Politician

Dwight Schultz

We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all.

American Actor

Kevin Young

People sometimes say hoaxes are about the blurry line between nonfiction and fiction. I just don't think it's a blurry line at all.

Stephanie Ruhle

Just because something doesn't confirm your existing beliefs does not mean it's a hoax.

American Journalist

Clint Eastwood

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

August Wilson

How do we transform loss? ... Time's healing balm is essentially a hoax.

American Playwright

Alan Watts

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

English Philosopher

Elvis Presley

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

American Singer

Understand that 'hoax' implies a deliberate attempt to deceive people, not an accidental falsehood.

Intent to Deceive

A hoax often requires a skeptical approach since it appears plausible but is fake.

Aim for Skepticism

'Hoax' often carries negative social implications; it can damage reputations if one falls for it.

Social Connotations

As a verb, 'hoax' implies you intend to fool someone badly, rather than make a small prank.

Intention Matters

Being caught hoaxing can lead to legal trouble or loss of trust.

Serious Consequences

Hoaxing usually involves planning; it's not done on spur-of-the-moment.

Planned Deception

 because they were afraid people would think it was a hoax, basically, so they made it really easy to find. So these guys are sitting there, listening to this signal, and people start coming into the office and saying, "That's pretty cool. Can I hear?" And before long, they think, "Jeez, this is kind of historic.

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 it's certainly that's why we're we were talking before it makes me laugh when you know the scientific community is accused of making a concerted effort of some kind of hoax whether its climate change or something else our job I get paid to rip apart my colleagues papers I mean that's how you make a name for

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 despite the fact that it's extraordinarily unhelpful and used to describe a number of things that are actually very lies, rumors, hoaxes, conspiracies, propaganda. And I really wish we could stop using a phrase that's been co-opted by politicians right around the world, from the left and the right,

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